"Everything captured; capture everything": Amma Darko's Alternative Library, Information Circulation, and Urban Re-Memory An Interview with Amma Darko

In an interview from 2016, the Ghanaian novelist Amma Darko reflects on the nature and promise of archives in urban Africa. Through dialogue about the nature and purpose of her fictional NGO MUTE, she comments on what is deemed worthy of preservation and archiving, and what evades the net, and how colonial politics continues to frame these phenomena. The interview takes a fortuitous turn through Toni Morrison's Beloved, and Darko speculates on the idea of rememory as a rubric through which we can understand the layers of socioarchaeology in African cities.